Persuasive Speech: Driving While Texting

Imagine this: You have a date scheduled with your girlfriend or boyfriend, but you over sleep. You wake up all panicy, youre already an hour late. You don’t want them to think you stood them out so you don’t even bother changing your clothes or fixing your hair. So you jet off in a rush and head to the car. As you’re driving you decide to send them a text to let them know you didn’t forget and you’re on your way… little did you know you were on your way to the hospital, with a pit stop at the county jail. It turns out that in those 2 seconds where you were looking at your cell phone you didn’t see that stop sign let alone that mini van with the 3 young children. All they can see now is the inside of the casket, while you’re looking at 25 to life

I know this is hard to imagine happening. But unfortunately this is a scenario that happens quite frequently and it could happen to anyone including you. In my speech I will discuss the dangers of cell phone use while driving, scary statistics, a real life example, laws concerning cell phone use, and the preventive measures used to ensure that you don’t ruin your life, along with the lives of others for a silly text message.

In the past few years the number of cell phones and cell phone users have dramatically increased. Along with this sudden burst, comes a corresponding effect of cell phone use in cars. Using your cell phone while driving is a seriously dangerous and hazardous action. Cell phones are a main distraction that cause the driver’s attention to be shifted away from the road and the world around them, to a tiny screen. A quick glance can cause a notorious outcome, in which your surroundings are forgotten and focus lost. Sending or receiving text distracts the driver for an average of 4.6 seconds. This is the same as driving 55 mph down an entire football field, blind.

This can lead to serious, fatal results. According to the Department of Transportation, cell phones cause 1.6 million accidents a...

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B. 330,000 injuries per year
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D. Texting makes you 23 more times more likely to crash
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C. Cognitive- mind off of driving
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC3x7K3EOTk
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Topic: Textingwhiledriving is dangerous to you and others.
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience not to drive and text. When I have finished my speech, my audience will be able to see why driving and texting is dangerous to themselves as well as others.
Central Idea: Persuade others not to text and drive because it is very dangerous.
Persuasive Proposition: (Statement of Fact, Value, or Policy) Statement of fact and policies
Organizational Strategy/Pattern: Cause and Effect
Attempting to Change: (attitude, belief, value, behavior) Behavior and attitude
Passive Agreement or Immediate Action? : Immediate action
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Speech Type: Persuasive
Dangers of Texting and Driving
Organization Type: Problem-Soultion Pattern
Attention Getter Type: audience participation/ survey
Conclusion Type: Call to Action
Goal/Purpose
To persuade my audience to stop texting and driving.
Introduction
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Research question:
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